Wednesday, 1 May 2013

Voice-controlled Smart Home system

The Arduino platform lends itself well to home automation (for example) and another example of this has been demonstrated by university students Jiayuan Wang and Sheng Zhang. They have used a voice-recognition IC to enable user input to control various lighting, heating and entertainment devices in their test system. Furthermore the voice-control section of the system is connected to the main unit wireless via XBee data transceivers, allowing a more user-friendly approach.

Considering this was a university project, it shows promise and is an excellent demonstration of the concept. And for more, we're on twitter and Google+, so follow us for news and product updates as well.

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